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    Just wanted to throw this out there for anyone who might be interested. Kirk Cameron narrates/walks through what homeschooling can actually look like. Our oldest son is about to start kindergarten and we are pumped and excited for my wife to start homeschooling him. People talk on here all the time about how messed up everything in our country and world is and I can tell you that any change that is going to take place has to start in your own homes. This is especially true if you are a Christian. People on here complain all the time about the public school system then turn around and send their kids right back into it and it just baffles me, I just don't get it. Homeschooling your kids may take some sacrifice but instilling a solid world view in them is worth it.


    Anyway, this video/production/documentary or whatever you want to call it is playing on Monday June 13th and Tuesday June 14th only in select theaters. The link below goes to a page where you can plug in your zip code to see where it is playing closest to you.


    We are excited to go see this and we are also taking my parents (who are very suspicious of our desire to homeschool). Just thought I would share!





    https://www.fathomevents.com/events/...hool-Awakening
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    I just never met a home school kid growing up that wasn't a fuckin weirdo.

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    Yep, all the ones I met had zero social skills.

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    Were you homeschooled?

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    Homeschool has come a long way with coops and the awareness of the need for kids to socialize, etc. social skill argument is now just propaganda keep people in the indoctrination camps. once you're out of that way of life, similar to leaving a religion you swore WASN'T a cult, its hard to believe what you went along with and how diminished of a life you were living to try and meet those social norms created to control large groups of people.

    People who go to public school will be forever shaped by that experience. You want to trust liberal/socialist and a bunch of mal-adjusted, inbred kids to determine what you kid thinks of theirself as an adult? Look up the lobster analogy by Jordan Peterson.
    “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sportin' Woodies View Post
    I just never met a home school kid growing up that wasn't a fuckin weirdo.
    Quote Originally Posted by Geetch View Post
    Yep, all the ones I met had zero social skills.
    I think it was different when "we" were growing up. Years ago I would've had the same opinion. Times have changed though. I don't think parents that homeschool now isolate their children socially the way they used to. Most are involved in a variety of activities that help with their social skills.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sportin' Woodies View Post
    I just never met a home school kid growing up that wasn't a fuckin weirdo.
    Ha, I was waiting on your response. Seems like you wait for the opportunity to say this in every homeschool thread on the site.


    Is this the only argument you have to say that homeschooling is bad?
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    Quote Originally Posted by duce44 View Post
    Were you homeschooled?
    Nope
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    plus homeschool kids can participate in the local district's extra-circulars, technology schools, dual enrollment with techs. eff public school. Its a prison where people are taught that they have no control over their lives, have to have an "authority" to tell them what to think (not how), what to do and when, ask when to go to the bathroom, etc.

    Highschool kids today can't make eye contact or hold a conversation with an adult because they interact digitally with everyone, and we're talking about homeschool social skill lacking?

    Outside of schooling itself, when did it become the norm or desirable to separate people from their families for most of their waking hours pretty much from birth (daycare, then school)? Could it be so that they learn to put more importance on their relationship to authority (school, employer) than family?
    Last edited by everlast; 05-20-2022 at 04:42 PM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dubs View Post
    Ha, I was waiting on your response. Seems like you wait for the opportunity to say this in every homeschool thread on the site.


    Is this the only argument you have to say that homeschooling is bad?

    Yep. 75% of education in school is making friends, dealing with enemies, talking to persons of the opposite sex, success, failure, and learning life ain't fair. I don't see how parents can replicate this. I'm not a fan of public school systems by any means but I 100% stand by my assessment of homeschool kids I knew growing up. And it wasn't 1 or 2. I bet some of them are still virgins.

    What's wrong with educating your children about the evils of society and sending them to school? Encourage them to debate the leftist teachers when the need should arise. I mean I'm just not the tuck tail and run type of person. I enjoyed and hated school. Kinda like life. But I would have missed out on life tucked away safe at home with mommy teaching me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sportin' Woodies View Post
    Yep. 75% of education in school is making friends, dealing with enemies, talking to persons of the opposite sex, success, failure, and learning life ain't fair. I don't see how parents can replicate this. I'm not a fan of public school systems by any means but I 100% stand by my assessment of homeschool kids I knew growing up. And it wasn't 1 or 2. I bet some of them are still virgins.

    What's wrong with educating your children about the evils of society and sending them to school? Encourage them to debate the leftist teachers when the need should arise. I mean I'm just not the tuck tail and run type of person. I enjoyed and hated school. Kinda like life. But I would have missed out on life tucked away safe at home with mommy teaching me.
    Good post.

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    I respect that and appreciate you elaborating on things. Do you think that the only place that kids can learn all those things in your first sentence is in a public school?
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    No private schools obviously could accomplish that as well.
    I'm in favor of any and every classroom being live streamed. Cops that I talk to love body cams. Shouldn't teachers as well?

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    Kids definitely need exposure to social difficulties, learning how to deal effectively with different personality types, and what I call emotional hardening, to be ready to deal with the realities of life. The issue, imo, is that they are thrown into this before they're old enough to have developed the emotional intelligence, their own sense of self, self-worth, confidence, to be unaffected by the lord of the flies environment or the social programming created by the leftests in charge of education. They should be exposed, no doubt, but methodically and incrementally.
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    I think an entirely privatized school system would kick public educations ass in the quality department. Abolish govt run schools. Free enterprise, consumer choice, always produces the best product. Which in this case is education. Fuck property taxes too btw.

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    I've only ever been this screen name since Feb of 2003

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sportin' Woodies View Post
    No private schools obviously could accomplish that as well.
    I'm in favor of any and every classroom being live streamed. Cops that I talk to love body cams. Shouldn't teachers as well?
    10-4. I guess I should have phrased my question differently. You think the only place a child can learn those things is in a classroom with other children? What about a classroom full of homeschool kids? Would that count to you?
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    It doesn't need to be either/or. Homeschool your kids until they're a bit older when the material isn't something you can adequately demonstrate and address. I did this with mine and they were just fine socially and ahead academically when I put them in public middle school. They're both gainfully employed adults completely on their own in their mid-20's.

    I know how kids are in public school. I was one long ago. It was in the second grade when my new friend taught me this neat little ditty:

    You titty suckin motherfuckin two timin bitch
    You mess around with me you get your damn ass kicked


    That was 1975.

    Now, I realize that most elementary students won't hear that kind of filth but some do and will. There's something to be said for choosing the kind of socialization your kids are exposed to until they're a bit older.

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    yep. if your kid makes it out without entertaining the idea that they are or should be gay, you're the minority now a ways
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sportin' Woodies View Post
    I just never met a home school kid growing up that wasn't a fuckin weirdo.
    There are sacrifices that must be made if you want to raise a Spelling Bee champion.

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